Canada

Against a traditionally weaker opponent, these are the games where Canada needs to develop chemistry. The Strome-Marner pairing looked dangerous at times against the US (registering one goal), but a game like today could be the deciding factor as to ice time in the remaining games- so it’s imperative for an impressive game from anyone looking for more ice time.

Matt Barzal is the interesting one here- as he scored Canada’s opening goal in the tournament but was slotted in originally as the 13th forward, seeing most of his duties on the power play- but you’ll have to think his play in game one earned him a bit more of a chance to be the tournament’s top forward like our onw Tom Hunter predicted.

Brendan Perlini Brayden Point Jake Virtanen

John Quenneville Dylan Strome Mitchell Marner

Lawson Crouse Mitchell Stephens Travis Konecny

Rourke Chartier Anthony Beauvillier Julien Gauthier

Mathew Barzal

Defence:

Travis Sanheim Travis Dermott

Thomas Chabot Joe Hicketts

Haydn Fleury Brandon Hickey

Roland McKeown

Denmark

Nikolaj Christensen Alexander True Mathias From

Kristian Jensen Soren Nielsen Jonas Rondbjerg

Jeppe Jul Korsgaard Jeppe Holmberg Thomas Olsen

Markus Jensen Emil Christensen William Boysen

Niklas Andersen

Defence

Matias Lassen Christian Mieritz

Lasse Bo Knudsen Anders Krogsgaard

Nicolai Weichel Morten Jensen

Ludvig Adamsen

Well, they have 20 skaters, but no big guns like last season in Nikolaj Ehlers and Oliver Bjorkstrand. Some sweet names though.

Starting goalies

Canada goes back to Mason McDonald, while Denmark will likely stick with Thomas Lillie. Puck drops at 1 pm.